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Identifier: randmcnallycospi1903rand (find matches)
Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s pictorial guide to Washington and environs ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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MINERVA.— Marble Mosaic by Elihu Vedd«r. 44 III. THE LIBRAEY OF CONGRESS.
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BRONZE DOOR TRADITION.—Mam Entrance.By Olin L. Warner. The Library of Congress,which originated with thepurchase inLondon in Origin Of 1802 of some Library.3,000 books of reference, was used askindling material by thevandals who gleefullyburned the Capitol and itsrecords in 1814. A newfoundation was laid by thepurchase of Thomas Jeffer-sons private library, and in1851 the collection had in-creased to 60,000 volumes,when half of it, or more,was again swept away byfire. After this damagewas repaired by the recon-struction of the westernfront of the Capitol, thegrowth was rapid, and theshelf-room speedily over-flowed. The arrangement bywhich the library receivedand continues to receive allthe publications acquiredby the Smithsonian systemof international exchanges,the Peter Force* and Doc-tor Toner historical collec-tions of rare books, pam- phlets, engravings, etc., and the steady accumulations under the action of the copy-right law have been the principal nuclei. Congress was very li

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